Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a prodigious profit cow for RCA in recent years, regularly furnishing about one-quarter of pretax earnings and in 1975 supplying 31%. But the milk was growing watery. By the end of 1978, NBC's pretax profit contribution dropped to 17.6%, less than two other RCA divisions. So Griffiths-"Bottom Line Ed," as he is known at RCA-went out and hired "the man with the golden gut," Fred Silverman...
...just another American innocent abroad? It certainly seemed so. "They live in that?" he questioned incredulously, as he squatted in front of a hut built from cow dung in northern Kenya. "Are they happy?" he asked, studying a group of Rendille tribesmen resting under a tree. He then wanted to know, "What do they do ail day long?" Told that they tended cattle, he persisted: "Yes. But what do they do while they're tending cattle?" And later he wondered whether "these local people have a pagan religion." To such questions posed by California Governor Jerry Brown, his African...
...lunar lunacy, the cow that jumped over the moon has gone into orbit. During this year's first three months, average prices for beef cuts are up 9%, to $2.23 per lb., and are expected to climb a further 25% by year's end. Because high prices at meat counters are such an immediate indicator of inflation's bite, consumers are clamoring for Washington to do something to bring them down...
...Cow Man will probably be there, along with Super Runner. Cow Man is known in marathoners' circles for racing in a 15-pound, authentic Indian headdress and keeping a pretty wild pace. Super Runner, sporting a full red cape, tights and the proud yellow "S", claims he flys marathons...
...rising too slowly. Said R. Heath Larry, president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "We will not become the scapegoat of the Administration. High profits are not inflationary; they promote new technology and investment, reduce pressure on the credit market and lift corporate taxes. You have to feed the cow instead of kicking it if you want the milk...